Morning Roll – Day 10 – SPIEL 2016 Highlights!
Good morning gamers, we’re fresh off a busy weekend at SPIEL 2016, so let’s get to some of the highlights.
Z-Man Games will be releasing Pandemic Legacy Season 2 in 2017.
Fantasy Flight Games will provide an expansion to XCOM in the new year called Evolution.
Pretzel Games has developed a Flick ’em Up version of the Dead of Winter, coming soon.
Mindclash Games brought a complete version of their Kickstarter success Anachrony, which produced a lot of buzz from those that played it.
Iello Games showed off their upcoming releases of The Mysterious Forest and KanaGawa, the later getting a lot of attention.
ITB Games play tested two promising games at their booth: Sub Terra and Savage Lands. Both games are still in development.
Portal Games showcased several upcoming releases: a more complete version of their space-related worker placement game First Martians: Adventure on the Red Planet, an expansion for Cry Havoc called Aftermath, a second edition of the Stronghold expansion Undead, and a 4x style card game called Alien Artifacts.
Die Baumeusrer des Colosseum is a new game from the designer of Carcassonne where you build a Roman coliseum out of cards.
Meduris is a worker placement game where you build shrines to the gods, and will be released this November in North America.
Dized is a new app in development that simplifies instructions for board games, replacing convoluted rule books.
And that is just a taste of some of the new coming out of Essen. We’ll share more as it comes.
What you missed from Board Game Stories:
NinjaBoy has a preview of the Kickstarter campaign for Star Saga, now live.
Grantelith has an interview with the team behind Mystic Scrolls. He also has a review of Iello’s Happy Pigs.
QuiverQuinn has an unboxing of Karmaka, a second part to her coverage of the game.
Thanks for stopping by, we’ll see you tomorrow.
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